Chapter 607 Return to the Tang Dynasty The Tang army that Zuo Shaoyang had been waiting for took the opportunity to send troops, but the situation of a two-sided attack did not appear. Although the Tubo army was mobilized and concentrated on Xiangxiong to attack the mandala, and the east was empty, Li Shimin, for unknown reasons, never took the opportunity to send troops to attack the eastern countries. As a result, Zuo Shaoyang's mandala could only face the attack of the entire Tubo army and even the entire Western Region! The Tibetan army even offered a reward for conquering the mandala, which would allow them to massacre the city in seven days! This is a crazy order, but it is also the most appealing one! The richness of Gangrenbuche mandala is renowned throughout the Western Regions. Without being driven by the Tibetan army, the other divisions in the vanguard had already attacked the city as if they were desperate. The brutality of the battle has reached an unbearable level. There were heavy casualties among the soldiers and civilians in the city. However, the 100,000 soldiers and civilians in the city were determined to protect their homeland. Those in front fell down, while those behind stepped on the corpses and continued to climb up. It repelled the strong attacks of the Tibetan coalition forces again and again. The siege of the city lasted for half a year, but the Tibetan coalition still failed to capture the mandala! At this time, the war situation is expected to develop in a direction conducive to Zuo Shaoyang. ¡ª¡ªThe severe winter is coming! The harsh winter makes the already tall and solid mandala walls even stronger and difficult to climb. The cold wind was biting and snowflakes were flying. Two hundred thousand Tibetan troops were camped outside the city. The weather was freezing and non-combat attrition was increasing day by day. At the same time, because the city had already prepared enough food and grass, the soldiers and civilians were very prosperous. They wore fur coats and burned themselves in the stove at the top of the city, laughing at the trembling siege troops below. Zuo Shaoyang happily encouraged the whole city: "The severe winter in Kangrenbuche lasted for more than half a year. Even if Tibet is exhausted in these six months, it will also bring down Tibet! At that time, the time for counterattack will come." The whole city is in high morale, waiting for others The moment when the Tibetan allied forces were defeated. Two months later, the Tibetan army could no longer hold on in the cold winter. So Tubo sent envoys to ask for an audience with Zuo Shaoyang. The envoy handed over a personal letter from Songtsen Gampo to Zuo Shaoyang. Although the war lasted for such a long time, Zuo Shaoyang had not yet met Songtsen Gampo, but received a letter from him first. I was amazed. The letter was written in bear-like script, with a Chinese translation attached at the back, which should have been translated by his military staff. This is a letter of persuasion to surrender. As long as Zuo Shaoyang surrenders, Songtsen Gampo will confer Zuo Shaoyang as the Dharma King of Gangrenbuche. Zuo Shaoyang wrote a reply and said that the troops could be withdrawn, but the Tubo army must all be withdrawn. From then on, the two families became a brotherly state and would not invade each other. Otherwise, there would be only a bloody battle to the end. Zuo Shaoyang expected that Tubo would not agree. Sure enough, the Tibetan coalition launched a new round of offensive, but it still failed and only added hundreds of corpses. The fighting continued for another month, and Songtsen Gampo once again proposed peace. Zuo Shaoyang's army also suffered heavy losses, so a ceasefire was naturally a good thing for him, so he agreed. After some bargaining, an armistice agreement was finally reached - Gangrenbuche Mandala joined Tubo as a vassal state of Tubo. However, Mandala retained its own army, and the Tibetan army was not allowed to enter the land with a radius of 500 miles centered on the Mandala. Tubo did not impose any taxes and laborers on the mandala. In this way, the mandala became a state within a state of Tubo, but on the surface, Songtsen Gampo had unified the entire Western Region. Both parties have a good reputation, it can be described as a win-win situation. After Tubo withdrew its troops, the whole city was in a state of excitement. The income of the mandala was used by itself, which was very beneficial to the development of the mandala. The Xiangxiong Kingdom has been destroyed, and the original altar owner no longer exists. The altar owner left the altar with his family, and all the military and political power of the altar was concentrated in the hands of Zuo Shaoyang. Zuo Shaoyang was wary of Tubo and immediately built beacon towers on the 500-mile border under his jurisdiction, established a post system in various places, and maintained a high degree of alert. At the same time, we will continue to recruit troops and expand the size of the regular army. Now that Mandala has money, it¡¯s easy to do things with money. Five years later, Mandala¡¯s city defense and army will have made a qualitative leap compared to before. In the past five years, Songtsen Gampo kept his promise and did not cause any trouble to the Mandala. Perhaps he was afraid of the Mandala's strong military power and solid defense, or perhaps he found that conquering the Mandala would be better than letting Zuo Shaoyang develop the Mandala. city, but benefited more from it. Anyway, since then, the trade between Tibet and Mandala has increased significantly. To use a modern term, the two sides have become each other's most important trading partners. Seeing that the world is at peace, the people of Mandala live and work in peace and contentment, the Jieer religion has grown and expanded, with hundreds of followers, and the military construction has achieved unprecedented development. Counting on the fingers of one hand, Zuo Shaoyang has been in Mandala for fifteen years. After the world was at peace, Zuo Shaoyang focused his energy on the education of his children. The two children Sang Xiaomei and Bai Zhihan gave birth to for him have grown up slowly. When she was enlightened at the age of four, Bai Zhihan let her?Shaoyang gave them scientific names. Zuo Shaoyang said: "Their generation is 'ÎÄ'. The three of them were all born under this sacred mountain. The last characters are named 'Xue, Mountain' respectively." So, Bai Zhihan's daughter His name is Zuo Wenxue, and Miao Peilan¡¯s son is named Zuo Wenshan. Zuo Shaoyang taught his son and daughter carefully, especially the youngest son born to Miao Peilan, who was talented and very interested in medicine. Since he could read and write, he read medical books written by his father all day long, to the point of forgetting to eat and sleep. degree. Zuo Shaoyang also loved his youngest son Zuo Wenshan very much and gave him everything he could. Under his careful guidance, he was already able to diagnose patients independently at the age of ten. He was highly praised by Zuo Shaoyang. The daughter Bai Zhihan gave birth to was too spoiled. Bai Zhihan was born to dote on children, so this daughter was very naughty, as wild as a boy. She followed Dalongxin and the others all day long to dance with guns and sticks. Dalongxin was grateful to Zuo Shaoyang and taught the girl everything he had. She trained hard since she was a child. By the time she was ten years old, not to mention boys of the same age, even ordinary adult warriors, three or five were no match for her. On this day, Zuo Shaoyang convened a meeting with the elders, guardians and senior military generals of the Jer sect. Announce one thing, that is, he will leave the mandala, return to the Tang Dynasty to visit relatives, and travel around the world at the same time. Zuo Shaoyang not only built Mandala into a prosperous and prosperous city with highly developed handicraft industry, but also led Mandala to fight against Tibet and preserved the fruits of labor. Therefore, his prestige among the soldiers and civilians of Mandala is very high. Now that I heard that he is leaving, Everyone is very sad. According to the rules of the Gyal Cult, after ten years of being the Dharma King, he can leave the city and travel around the world, so there is no reason to prevent Zuo Shaoyang from returning. And if you think about it, you can understand that after fifteen years away from home, it¡¯s time to go back and have a look. Xue Wanji also proposed to return to the Tang Dynasty with Zuo Shaoyang. Zuo Shaoyang agreed when he saw that he was old and not suitable to stay here anymore. Dalongxin was appointed as the acting Dharma King of the Gyal Sect, and Xue Wanji's deputy was appointed as the supreme military commander. In the past fifteen years, the economy of Mandala has developed rapidly. All the money that Zuo Shaoyang sold to the people on credit has been returned to him. For the convenience of carrying, all the money was exchanged for valuable gems. On the day of departure, people from all over the city came to see him off and knelt down in darkness for miles away. Zuo Shaoyang's family was moved to tears. Zuo Shaoyang drank wine next to each other, taking only a small sip at each place. Even so, even though he was only half a child, he was already so drunk that his tongue was tied and he could not stand steadily. . But he still kept drinking, and in the end, he was very drunk and left the mandala in the car. Under the protection of Xue Wanji's army and the fact that the entire Western Region has been unified, Zuo Shaoyang's team went smoothly all the way. Returning home was as fast as an arrow, and they traveled very quickly. A few months later, they entered the Tang Dynasty, and then Xue Wanji took people back to the capital, while Zuo Shaoyang's family returned to his hometown of Hezhou after an absence of many years. This is already the twenty-third year of Zhenguan! It has been twenty-one years since Zuo Shaoyang traveled to the Tang Dynasty. His eldest son is already as tall as him. The family is finally reunited, which is really sad and happy. The two children born in the Western Region were a little embarrassed when they saw their elder brother and sister. Qiao Qiaoer and Sang Xiaomei hugged Zuo Shaoyang and cried like tears. There were already some gray hairs on their temples, which was the result of suffering from lovesickness. Zuo Shaoyang had mixed feelings. He hugged Qiao Qiaoer and Sang Xiaomei, and said to his gray-haired parents and sisters and husband: "From now on, even if the sky falls, I will never leave you!" The whole family nodded frequently. , shed tears of joy. ¡°What puzzles the family is that Zuo Shaoyang¡¯s appearance is almost the same as it was twenty years ago, with no wrinkles or a single gray hair. Of course, like the men of the Tang Dynasty, he grew a beard, dark and shiny. Only Zuo Shaoyang knows that this is because for the past twenty years, he has been practicing the Return to the Void and Breathing Technique taught by his senior brother Sun Simiao, which is the supreme health-preserving technique of Taoism. Everyone laughed and said that if this continues, in ten or twenty years, Zuo Shaoyang will look younger than his son. The news of the return of Divine Doctor Zuo immediately spread throughout Hezhou, and many people came to see him. There was an endless stream of guests at home. The medical books left by Zuo Shaoyang to his father Zuo Gui improved Zuo Gui's medical skills by a big step. He is now a well-known doctor. Since Zuo Shaoyang has been away for fifteen years, many people only know him as the old doctor Zuo Gui. His medical skills are amazing, but he doesn¡¯t know that Xiao Zuo Langzhong is the real great one. Mother Ni has died of illness, but Dr. Ni continues to treat her, but her gray hair has turned completely white. Hearing that Zuo Shaoyang was back, he also came to visit. The excitement lasted for more than a month, and then it gradually returned to calm. However, Zuo Shaoyang was destined to be a person who could not rest in peace. Two months after he returned to Hezhou??Someone came from the imperial court, an imperial envoy sent by Emperor Li Shimin. He was accompanied by the governor of Hezhou. This imperial envoy was Zuo Shaoyang¡¯s old acquaintance, Eunuch Luo. Fifteen years later, Eunuch Luo's back was a little hunched and his eyes were a little dazzled. He didn't care about greetings, so he pulled Zuo Shaoyang into the study, closed the door and talked. Zuo Shaoyang knew it was not a good thing, just looked at him. Eunuch Luo looked at Zuo Shaoyang carefully for a long time, then he raised his hand and said with a smile: "Miracle Doctor Zuo learned the art of immortality from Mr. Sun, and it turned out to be a miracle. Fifteen years have passed. Doctor Zuo is now over forty, but he is still learning the art of immortality." A ten-year-old boy is still young, and he doesn't look old at all. It's really gratifying!" Zuo Shaoyang said with a smile, "It's nothing." Eunuch Luo stared: "Is there anything better than this in the world? Are spells more exciting? To be honest, my brother, the miracle doctor, one of the reasons why the emperor sent us here this time is to invite the miracle doctor to come to Beijing to teach the emperor the art of immortality. " Zuo Shaoyang smiled: "This. My senior brother Sun Simiao taught me magic. He has been with the emperor for many years, and he must have taught him everything he can." Eunuch Luo shook his head: "There is no need for the miracle doctor to be modest. The emperor knows that old miracle doctor Sun has something. A special magic that can make you immortal. It is because of this miraculous medical skill that Dr. Zuo is still as dark and healthy as a young man even at ten years old. At the same age, it is obvious that he has mastered the miraculous skill of Dr. Sun. The emperor hopes that the miraculous doctor will not hesitate to teach me. "Only Sun Simiao and himself know the art of returning to the void, and it is impossible for others to know." So Zuo Shaoyang refused to admit it, shook his head and said: "My father-in-law is joking, if I have this kind of magic, I will be unhappy to death. I learned Taoism from my senior brother. My senior brother has been in the palace for so long, he should have already I have taught the emperor all the health-preserving techniques. I really have nothing to teach you." "There is no need to hide the miracle doctor. Sun, the old miracle doctor, has told the emperor a few days ago" Zuo Shaoyang said happily: "You see me. Senior brother? Where is he? " Luo Gonggong said: "He is in the capital, but he has left. He told the emperor that he has a magical magic that can delay aging and even make him immortal. It's a single lineage. Since he has already taught it to you, he can no longer pass it on to others. If the emperor wants to learn this skill, he can only learn it from you. That's why the emperor asked us to come to him. What a miracle doctor." Zuo Shaoyang was stunned for a moment. The fact that Eunuch Luo could tell a single-line magic spell was enough to prove that these words were indeed said by Sun Simiao. But I don¡¯t know why Sun Simiao told the emperor about this. Asked: "Where has my senior brother gone?" "Traveling around the world, doing medical rounds." Eunuch Luo sighed and said: "The emperor was seriously ill, and he searched many ways before he found the old miracle doctor Sun. The old miracle doctor Sun learned that the emperor was ten years old. Five years ago, the decree was declared that you were not guilty. You went to the Western Regions and knew that the emperor was seriously ill, so you agreed to go to the capital to see the emperor. However, you were not cured. Before leaving, Dr. Sun told the emperor. There is a magical spell that can prolong life and even lead to immortality, but it has been passed down to you through a single line. This spell may be able to help delay the emperor's illness. Only then did the emperor know that there was such a magical spell. " Zuo Shaoyang was stunned, thinking that when Sun Simiao told the emperor about this, he must have hoped that the wise emperor Li Shimin could live longer, because this magic was passed down by a single line, and he had already taught it to himself, so he could not teach it to the emperor. I want to teach the emperor magic and help him prolong his life. So that people all over the world can enjoy a few more years of happiness and health. This is the result of Sun Simiao's compassionate medical heart. However, Sun Simiao didn't know that Li Shimin died this year in history. This kind of magic may not extend his life. ro! ~!